Happy New Year! I hope 2013 brings you peace, health and happiness for you and your family.
It's the first of the month (and the first of the year!) which means it's time for our monthly Papertrey Ink Sr DT challenge. We are once again pulling out an older set and giving it new life with new project ideas. This month we are featuring All Booked Up. I don't know about your family, but we definitely spend more time indoors doing things like reading this time of year. All Booked Up is the perfect set for creating cards and gifts for this time of year.
For my project today I created a card and bookmark, complete with a pretty wrapping. The perfect simple gift to tuck in a card. I'll show you an easy way to create a clip-style bookmark using pretty much any die in your collection.
The wrapping for my bookmark is a medium-size glassine bag topped off with a Mat Stack 6 diecut folded in half and stamped with a rose image from The Sweet Life.
Inside is the bookmark which is held in place by a tabbed card which I created with the Card Base-ics #1 die (trimmed down slightly to fit inside the glassine bag). The bookmark was created using the Limitless Layers 3 1/2" Oval dies as the base and the clip portion was cut using a Sweet Life die (more about that in a bit). The tabs on the Card Base-ics die are the perfect size to hold my oval bookmark in place. Along the bottom of the card I stamped a sentiment from the All Booked Up set. The "Let me save your spot" sentiment stamped directly on the bookmark is also from All Booked Up.
You can see from this photo that only a portion of the rose has been diecut so that it can be clipped on the page of a book....
...like this. I used a simple diecutting technique that makes this easy as pie.
I started with my oval diecut (patterned paper layered over a thin chipboard to make my bookmark extra sturdy), then I partially cut the rose from the center of tho oval. I positioned my die and my plates as shown in the photo below so that only the portion of the die that's between the plates will cut. The rest will remain intact. You could use this method with pretty much any dies to create bookmarks with any theme or style. I'm thinking kiddy bookmarks for Christmas next year using the TT: Holiday dies would be so cute! (crossing my fingers for dies for the TT: Valentines too!) ETA: OOps! Turns out we already HAVE TT: Valentine dies - it's TT: Holiday that we don't have dies for yet...color me confused. :-)
And lastly my card...just a simple card using the book image from All Booked up and one of the sentiments from the set as well, along with a cluster of roses from The Sweet Life.
The whole gray and pink color scheme of this project was inspired by an old book I found at a thrift store a while back.
Well, that's all for today's project. I hope you're having a great day. I am about ready to wrap up the holiday festivities and get back into a normal routine! We've had a wonderful holiday week here and I hope you have too. If you're in the mood for more inspiration to pull out your All Booked Up set today (or maybe break down and purchase one - ha!) you can visit the other DT gals to see what they've created using this set...
Melissa Phillips
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Nichole Heady
Maile Belles
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Beautiful project, Betsy! I especially love how you partially cut the rose on your bookmark!
Posted by: Leigh Penner | January 01, 2013 at 08:59 AM
LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your idea Betsy!!!!!!! I have a card to make for a New Neighbor today & a little Bookmark would be just the thing to add to my gift, Homemade Bread included! THANK YOU for your WONDERFUL INSPIRATION!
Posted by: Becky Green | January 01, 2013 at 11:07 AM
what is a TT?
Posted by: Nanette | January 01, 2013 at 11:09 AM
This is a darling stamp set, don't know how it got past me! Partially cutting the rose die is another brilliant Betsy idea. Love and try everything you demonstrate. Thank You!
Posted by: Nancy Penir | January 01, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Another terrific, out-of-the-box idea Betsy! LOVE this one and can think of so many fun ways to incorporate this on projects. Happy New Year!
Posted by: Alice Golden | January 01, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Absolutely amazing!! I absolutely love this set and will have to try to make one for myself!!
Posted by: Kristii | January 01, 2013 at 02:00 PM
Your card is beautiful and I like the idea of the bookmark.
Posted by: Linda M | January 01, 2013 at 02:40 PM
So so pretty! Another inspiring work of art!
Posted by: dalayney | January 01, 2013 at 11:22 PM
what a lovely project, Betsy. Thank you for the inspiration that you provide!
Posted by: Donna M | January 02, 2013 at 05:58 AM
Betsy, these are beautiful! What a wonderful little set!
Posted by: Jingle | January 02, 2013 at 02:48 PM
Aaaah, so very pretty :) LOBE the page marker!
Posted by: janet wilson | January 02, 2013 at 10:19 PM
I just love what you do. When I see something in a magazine or on the web and think "boy do I like that" I usually see your name attached to it. Your creativity is so inspiring!
Posted by: Rebecca | January 03, 2013 at 06:14 AM
Beautiful color combination & thanks for the fun die tip. This is a wonderful gift idea. Happy, happy New Year!
Posted by: Troy Louise | January 03, 2013 at 01:21 PM
Happy New Year Betsy to you and your family!
LOVE this card SOOOO GORGEOUS...JUST LOVE all your work and look so much forward to see what you will bring in to my room this year!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Hugs Holly.
Posted by: Holly Saveur | January 05, 2013 at 08:08 AM
absolutely stunning and very elegant :) x
Posted by: Marlou McAlees | January 09, 2013 at 06:52 AM